Malajahna

Malajahna Odia , Dead Moon is a 1965 Oriya film written and directed by Nitai Palit based on a novel of the same title by the Oriya novelist Upendra Kishore Das. The film stars Akshaya Mohanty Kashyap and Jharana Dasin the lead. Considered as a classic in the history of Oriya cinema, the film deals with an unusual theme in seventies in rural India of love between a married woman and a young man.

The Project was started in 1962 with co efforts of Akshaya Mohanty amp Akshaya Mohanty Kashyap. Some friends of the duo like Sarat Dev, Sriprasad Kanunugo amp Arabinda Misra also supported to over come the financial crises. After four to five days of shooting, the project stopped due to financial crises. In 1963 the erstwhile king of Alli, Ban Bihari Dev again poured money to continue the project.After 60 percent shooting of the project completed, the project stopped for another one year due to the same financial crises. At last Akshaya Mohanty sought help of the producer amp director Dhira Biswal. He took the responsibility on his shoulder and the film released in 1965.This poignant love story is narrated in the context of life in rural Orissa infested by superstitions,narrow caste prejudices and acute poverty. Women were like slaves with no mind and choice of their own and child marriages were widely prevalent. The agony and suffering of Sati may be seen as essentially related to the social evils that afflicted contemporary rural Orissa. ........

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